Chapter 4713 Greedy Ambition
When Lecombe led people to a goods yard where Tang people gathered, they saw more than ten Tang people standing in front of a house with horizontal knives, staring at him eagerly.
He sent people forward to negotiate and tried to appease him, but the leader of the Tang Dynasty shook his head: "The lives of the Tang people are not something you natives can take away at will. Since you have killed our people, you will have to bear the Tang people's revenge. Unless we all Kill, otherwise there will be no compromise.”
Naturally, LeCum couldn't understand Chinese. He stared and waited for the people around him to translate. When he heard that the Tang people still refused to reconcile, he hurriedly said: "Tell them that they can make whatever conditions they want, as long as they don't treat us 'Tagalogs' Kill them all, you can agree to any conditions!”
Dozens of warships lined the sea, bringing him unparalleled oppression.
However, the Tang people still refused.
They were guarding the house. Inside the house were the corpses of three Tang people who had been killed by Lecombe a month ago. They allowed the corpses to stink and rot, but they refused to bury them in order to preserve the evidence.
And they didn't negotiate terms. Even though Lekum put a dozen gold nuggets in front of him, the Tang people didn't care.
What's troublesome is that a large-scale malaria outbreak happened just after the Tang people arrived at the Pasig River. The high priest said that this was a disaster brought by the Tang people. He believed it and killed several sick Tang people, which resulted in today's situation.
He didn't understand. They were just a few merchants from the Tang Dynasty. Why did dozens of warships sail across the ocean to Luzon to take revenge? An operation involving dozens of warships and thousands of soldiers would cost more than hundreds of thousands of money and food? Just for a few businessmen?
Just as he was at a loss what to do, the eldest son who had been left behind ran over quickly again. Before anyone arrived, he shouted from a distance: "Father, the Tang Dynasty has landed! The Tang Dynasty has landed!"
Lekum's whole body was cold, and he realized that the situation was irreversible. He gritted his teeth, waved his heart, and waved his hands, and said loudly: "Since the Tang people insist on killing my blood heirs of the Tagalog people, the brave 'him' The Garu people will naturally not sit still and wait for death! Gather the clansmen and prepare for war with the Tang people. The omnipotent 'Batala' will protect us, and the invincible 'Amanipur' will also help us push the Tang people back to the sea. On!”
As they shouted, more and more natives rushed out from the surrounding houses. They held wooden sticks, stone axes, bows and arrows, and shouted "Aoao" and crowded around Lekum, with high morale.
As the chief of the "Tagalog people", Lekum's prestige cannot be underestimated, and his tribe is willing to follow him to fight against the enemy.
They have repelled the invasions of the Moruyu people time and time again, and suppressed the resistance of the Ilo and Bicol people time and time again. Under the leadership of "Batala" and the chief, they were invincible.
Although the knives of the Tang people were sharper and their armor stronger, they were fearless.
In fact, the arrival of the Tang people brought about earth-shaking changes in the world of the "Tagalogs". The Tang people used large ships to transport luxury goods such as silk, porcelain, and glass in exchange for gold, rice and other materials, making everyone extremely rich. This makes the "Tagalog people" who have inherited the custom of "lying flat" for thousands of years with their ancestral blood, envious and jealous. They need silk, porcelain, and glass from the Tang Dynasty, but do not want to pay for gold and rice.
Therefore, they were hostile to the Tang people and shouted again and again to ask the Tang people to lower the prices of silk, porcelain, and glass, hoping that they could buy these things with only a small amount of gold. However, they were unwilling to pay even a pound of rice because "he added The "Lu people" do not know how to grow rice. Planting rice is the skill of the "Iluo people", and there is also a war between them and the "Iluo people"...
So Lekum raised his arms and called out, and those who responded gathered. The tribesmen all hoped to kill all the Tang people and rob all their goods.
The Tang people surrounding the house looked solemn. Seeing that the situation was not good, they all retreated into the house, bowed their bows and unsheathed their swords, prepared for defense and prepared to fight.
Lekum waved his hand: "Ignore these Tang people, they are just turtles in a jar. Follow me to the port to kill the Tang troops!"
Lekum didn't understand the art of war, but he understood the principle of "strengthening one force and then weakening three times until it is exhausted". If he attacked the group of Tang people in the house now, he could easily kill them all, but by then the tribesmen would have lost their energy and they would fight against the landing again. The large Tang army may have low morale. It is better to go directly to the port when the morale is high, and drive the Tang people back to the sea while their foothold is not stable. When the time comes, they can turn around and deal with this group of Tang merchants. Pinch.
"Ho ho ho!"
The tribesmen made piercing screams, wore linen clothes, and some even used leaves to cover their shameless parts, revealing their dark, thin and strong bodies, waving a variety of weapons, and rushed towards the port following Lekum.
The Tang merchants in the house were ready for a fight to the death. Although they were equipped with horizontal knives and armor, there were too many natives, and the human sea tactics could exhaust them to death. Once a battle started, they would definitely die.
The pride in their chests prevented them from surrendering, not to mention that the corpses of their companions were still placed in the house. If they surrendered at this time, how could they be worthy of these companions who died in a foreign country?
As a result, hundreds of thousands of natives ignored them and turned around to snipe the main force of the navy at the port...
"Are these natives fools?"
"Don't we always call them monkeys? They are no smarter than monkeys."
"Going to snipe the Tang Navy with sticks and rocks?"
"Our policy is to try not to massacre the natives, so they don't know how powerful the navy is."
"Yeah, but I'll probably find out soon."
……
In fact, Lekum knew things faster, more directly, and more profoundly than those few Tang merchants imagined.
When he led his people to the port, the Tang army's ship had just docked. Although the rain had stopped, the wind had not stopped, and the sea was still turbid and rough. However, the Tang army was not afraid of the danger of running aground and moved the ship as close to the shore as possible. , then one small sampan after another descended from the big ship into the sea, and then the soldiers jumped from the side of the ship to the sampan. Some held up their shields, some gathered their swords, and some took out their oars, and quickly rushed towards Row away from the shore.
Many sampans were disembarked from each big ship, and countless of them were gathered together in one place, and densely packed waves rushed towards the shore.
Lecombe only felt his scalp numb. He did not know the art of war but was rich in combat experience. He knew that he could not allow the Tang army to land smoothly. He immediately ordered everyone to rush to the shore to form an array. He only waited for the Tang army to reach the shore and attacked them head-on.
When the fastest sampan was more than ten feet away from the shore, Lecombe led his men to prepare for battle. He saw arrows rising from the closer sampans, flying across the sky in an instant, above his head. Falling down diagonally.
Puff puff puff!
The sharp arrow clusters easily penetrated the "Tagalog's" simple clothes and penetrated into the body. Beast-like wails came one after another, and the tight array began to loosen.
Lekum's eyes were splitting, and he shouted repeatedly: "Steady! Steady! They charge in a boat and can't bring many arrows with them!"
The unparalleled prestige took effect, and the tribesmen stabilized the array with pale lips and frightened faces, letting the arrows fall diagonally from above their heads, and they penetrated into the body of any unlucky person, causing howls of pain.
The reason why the "Tagalogs" have been able to dominate Luzon Island for hundreds of thousands of years is precisely because they are braver and more disciplined than other people such as the "Ilo people", "Bikol people" and "Maluo people" Yan Ming, even though the arrows above his head kept falling and harvesting lives, he still held his ground at the critical moment.
But this does not change the outcome.
The sampan has not yet reached the shore. The gun jackets have been removed from the warships in the sea, and the ferocious barrels of the cannons are exposed. The soldiers put in the propellant, stuffed the projectiles, ignited, and fired... Boom!
Then without looking at the impact point of the cannonball, a long brush is inserted into the barrel to clean the gunpowder residue, and then the gunpowder residue is filled, loaded, and ignited again.
The waves on the sea were turbulent and the battleship was shaking, making it impossible to aim accurately. However, the shells landed on the coast one after another, with a roar and fire shooting into the sky, scaring the indigenous troops into panic and turning their faces earth-colored. Occasionally, a shell fell into the crowd. Suddenly, the remaining limbs flew everywhere and fell down.
How have the indigenous people who still survive in the slash-and-burn cultivation stage seen such powerful weapons? The array has begun to panic and is on the verge of collapse.
Unfortunately, the huge waves rolled up and down, making it impossible to control the impact point of the artillery shells. Several rounds even landed near the charging sampans. In order to avoid accidental damage to our own side, we had to stop the shelling.
Lecombe breathed a long sigh of relief, but before he could gather his composure, the sampan had already rushed to the shore and ran aground. Countless Tang soldiers held up shields and waved swords, quickly gathered into one-on-one formations, and began to charge on the beach.
Lecombe raised a spear in his hand, his veins bursting out, and he shouted hoarsely: "Fight! Fight!"
At the end of the queue, his wife Anneton, wearing a piece of animal skin around her waist and with her upper body exposed, was waving her drumsticks to beat the war drum vigorously. The dull sound of the drum could be heard far away on the beach, which had a soul-stirring power of its own. .
The natives took advantage of the Tang army's unsteady footing to launch a charge. The Tang army quickly gathered into more than ten formations, each with twenty or thirty people, with sword and shield hands in front and spearmen in the back. They coordinated and looked after each other. The sharp knife is usually inserted into the enemy array.
The shield resisted the enemy's crude weapons, the horizontal sword killed the enemy in front, and the spear thrust out from the gap in the shield... The Tang army, which was well-equipped and coordinated with each other, was like more than ten steel knives, quickly cutting the enemy array into pieces and strangulating them individually. .
Although the natives of Luzon are brave and good at fighting, have they ever encountered an enemy with such rigorous tactics and exquisite coordination?
The rout happened in an instant.
Countless natives shouted, threw away the wooden sticks, stone axes, bows and arrows in their hands, turned around and fled into the distance. No matter how Lekum shouted and cursed, no matter how the chief's wife showed off her beautiful body and beat the war drum, they collapsed without looking back. Lekum originally thought that by gathering the whole clan, he could fight, and that as long as the war was stalemate, he could negotiate. But unexpectedly, when faced with a charge by the Tang army, the entire army collapsed, leaving him unable to fight back.